Malatesta

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Malatesta may refer to:

People[edit]

  • House of Malatesta, an Italian family which ruled over Rimini from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century

Given name[edit]

  • Malatesta (I) da Verucchio (1212–1312), founder of the powerful Italian Malatesta family and a famous condottiero
  • Malatesta II Malatesta, best known as Guastafamiglia (c. 1299–1364), Italian condottiero and lord of Rimini.
  • Malatesta III Malatesta or Malatesta IV Malatesta (also known as Malatesta dei Sonetti); (1370–1429), Italian condottiero, poet and lord
  • Malatesta IV Baglioni (1491–1531), Italian condottiero and lord of Perugia, Bettona, Spello and other lands in Umbria

Surname[edit]

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